Hi all,
I'll cut right to it. Earlier today my line manager called me in for a chat and advised that she had got a report of my internet usage over the past couple of weeks and she deems it to be excessive.
She asked me a number of questions about my understanding of the policy and if I considered it to be acceptable. I'll be perfectly honest, I do surf the internet during work hours. Our systems are slow and take time to update so I tend to potter around while waiting for these updates to happen.
I'm not trying to excuse what I did but up until today I didn't really see it as an issue but apparently it is and I didn't go near the internet for the rest of today.
I was a bit blindsided by the whole thing so can't remember every question that was asked. One of them was definitely my understanding of the policy -which allows for fair use-, whether I considered this acceptable -I don't- and if any previous managers had spoken to me about my internet usage -they haven't as far as I recall, certainly never anything that was recorded officially anywhere-.
I did make sure to ask the implications of this and she said that she honestly didn't know at this point. She would speak to our IT department, take into account what I said and let me know. It may go nowhere but it may go somewhere.
I'm naturally concerned about this and wonder what that "somewhere" could be? Is it likely to be an instant dismissal or is worst case a formal disciplinary procedure of some kind? I realise not knowing the company doesn't help in this situation but if anyone has any experience with this I'd greatly appreciate the advice.
I've worked for this company for about 7 years and have never had any formal procedures such as warnings or anything else against my name.
Thanks in advance guys.
I'll cut right to it. Earlier today my line manager called me in for a chat and advised that she had got a report of my internet usage over the past couple of weeks and she deems it to be excessive.
She asked me a number of questions about my understanding of the policy and if I considered it to be acceptable. I'll be perfectly honest, I do surf the internet during work hours. Our systems are slow and take time to update so I tend to potter around while waiting for these updates to happen.
I'm not trying to excuse what I did but up until today I didn't really see it as an issue but apparently it is and I didn't go near the internet for the rest of today.
I was a bit blindsided by the whole thing so can't remember every question that was asked. One of them was definitely my understanding of the policy -which allows for fair use-, whether I considered this acceptable -I don't- and if any previous managers had spoken to me about my internet usage -they haven't as far as I recall, certainly never anything that was recorded officially anywhere-.
I did make sure to ask the implications of this and she said that she honestly didn't know at this point. She would speak to our IT department, take into account what I said and let me know. It may go nowhere but it may go somewhere.
I'm naturally concerned about this and wonder what that "somewhere" could be? Is it likely to be an instant dismissal or is worst case a formal disciplinary procedure of some kind? I realise not knowing the company doesn't help in this situation but if anyone has any experience with this I'd greatly appreciate the advice.
I've worked for this company for about 7 years and have never had any formal procedures such as warnings or anything else against my name.
Thanks in advance guys.
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